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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date JapanOmanCongo - Kinshasa
126,5122,34851,181
126,7552,40352,782
127,0562,45754,453
127,3242,51056,170
127,5582,56257,860
127,6582,61359,599
127,6792,66361,474
127,7622,71363,479
127,9042,76465,590
127,9692,81667,800
127,9582,87170,114
127,9672,92872,550
127,7552,98675,138
127,4763,04777,792
127,2573,11080,534
127,1863,17483,368
127,0343,24086,229
126,8573,30789,193
126,6313,37592,209
126,3683,44495,232
126,0923,51298,320
125,6343,582101,499
125,4273,651104,767
124,7623,696108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Japan

  • 724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
  • 1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.